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This is my first update done in Linux on my laptop. I had put Mandrake 9.2 on it back when I first got it, but I didn't have time to get around to fixing
all the things that needed tweaking, so I just basically always used Windows on my laptop. Plus apparently using wireless in Linux on this laptop is still a small feat, so I figured I would try when 10.0 came out. Anyways, I have Mandrake 10 installed after some fighting with the cdrom drive, and then booting up this a horrendous screeching noise due to the speakers getting feedback from the microphone jack at full blast. Fun. Anyways, I hope to have it all up and going by the time I go to my internship, so I don't have to take my huge desktop computer with me.
And speaking of my internship, I got some more information on it today, and they're putting us in some very nice furnished apartments. I'm really looking forward to it.
And on the subject of things to "look forward" to, I signed up to take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) today, to take it next Wednesday on the 12th. I got some books on the library about it, and it's essentially the SAT with harder vocabulary, a little tougher math (10th grade math instead of 9th grade) and two writing sections. I'm most worried about the vocabulary, but the writing sections should be interesting since it's been a really long time since I've written a non-technical paper that had to analyze an arguement or persuade a person. But I think I'll do ok, and I still have a full week to practice. I'm already 1/3 of the way through the 300+ "Most Frequent Words" vocab list.
As far as school goes, it was my worst semester since 7th grade. I got two B+'s and three A's. And I did bomb that circuits final, which is what dropped me down to a B+. If I had scored maybe 10 points higher I might have gotten an A, but a B+ pretty much accuarately describes how well I could implement a MOSFET as an amplifier, so I consider it a fair grade.
This is what happens when you have far too much time on your hands and you get really bored in New York: PacManhattan. I actually saw this on Headline news today while I was eating dinner (which I made btw, gotta brush up and polish my mad 133t kooking ski11z for this summer). Further proof that everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame eventually.
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